Laboratory information, built for the public good

The Digital Initiatives Group (DIGI), part of the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, leads OpenELIS development and community stewardship. Being inside one of the world's leading public research universities is a real advantage: OpenELIS can draw on deep expertise across medicine, public health, informatics, and computer science, and on the academic rigor that underpins its published evidence base. DIGI's team has spent two decades building national-scale health information systems and helped found the Open LIS Community of Practice. And the University of Washington itself is reassuringly permanent: a public institution founded in 1861, one of the largest and oldest public research universities in the country, with a long-standing commitment to work in the public interest. It isn't going anywhere. For a ministry choosing infrastructure to run for the next decade, that stability matters as much as the software — OpenELIS isn't tied to any vendor's roadmap; it's backed by an institution built to last.